Garden Club meeting featuring hat parade

May 14, 2003

The Somerset Garden Club's meeting on June 9 will feature a hat parade with prizes for winners in four categories, patriotic, seasonal, prettiest, and most original. All members have been encouraged to participate in this spring event at the Dressler Center.

The annual plant sale held May 10, offered a collection of hanging baskets, bedding plants, annuals, perennials, house plants and herbs. The profits aid in the expense for the uptown beautification project later this month.

These plantings are scheduled for May 20, with the rain date being May 22. Chairpersons for this event are Gwen May and Lili Geiser.

Jane Sotomayor, president, reported on the recent state Garden Club Federation's convention held in Harrisburg in the leading state for new membership in the National Garden Club.

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National president Lois Shuster, a member of the Somerset Garden Club, encouraged the planting of trees during her term. Nearly five million trees were planted in North, Central and South America. The incoming national president, June Wood, has America Abloom as one of her projects, which stresses the planting of flowering trees.

In celebration of Arbor Day, members of Grace Carey and Ann Brooks planted a flowering pear tree at the Salisbury Elementary School.

The children's garden at the Children's Aid Home is being prepared for planting. A formal dedication of this garden will be announced later this month.

Funds for this garden were partly from a PETALS grant from Shell Oil Co. For 32 years, Shell has partnered with the National Garden Clubs, Inc. in environmental and conservation efforts of individual garden clubs. Over a million dollars ha been donated through this Protect the Environment through Action, Learning and Service, aimed at sustainable development in communities.